Francois Mauriac Quotes

To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.

We tend to lack humility toward love, to patronize it rather than bow before it, to put mundane considerations before the emotional need to hold someone in our arms.

People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.

Love is a component of many different things - the baggage you bring, the moment, what you need in your life, seeing someone as a portal for understanding everything, and all the intensity that brings. It's not something to count on and act like it's a stable thing.

Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred.

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

I feel like love is the thing we were created for, yet it's the place we struggle the most.

When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

That will to love is very powerful. But it doesn't always win.

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider 'romance.'

Being in love is all about the ability to give rather than take. It is not easy, but if you can accept this, then you will experience love.

Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.

Ash: I know better than to interfere with the natural order, but I couldn't let you die. I didn't want to watch you suffer. Tory: Why would you do that? He led her hand to his face so that she was touching his cheek as he stared at her. His eyes and the pain in them burned her soul deep. Ash: Because I don't feel broken when you look at me.

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can only be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice. Justice requires that we carefully weigh rights and privileges and assure that each member of a community receives his due share. Love does not weigh rights and privileges too carefully because it prompts each to bear the burden of the other.

The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.

In business people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else's situation as you are about your own.

A human’s love. I couldn’t wish anything better for him. Animals protect what they know. They protect what they are bound to, but humans…humans have a greater capacity for sacrifice for those who live in their hearts. (Aristotle)

Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling.

The best thing to do is find one person in your life and try to love them unconditionally. If you've accomplished that, you've accomplished a lot.

There is no love which does not become help.

With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt because love is an amazing feeling.